We describe the system submitted to IBEREVAL-2017 for stance and gender detection in tweets on Catalan Independence [1]. We developed a supervised system using Support Vector Machines with radial basis function kernel to identify the stance and gender of the tweeter using various character level and word level features. Our system achieves a macro-average of F-score(FAVOR) and F-score(AGAINST) ...

We present a new high-order, local meshfree method for numerically solving reaction 5 diffusion equations on smooth surfaces of co-dimension one embedded in Rd. The novelty of the 6 method is in the approximation of the Laplace-Beltrami operator for a given surface using Hermite 7 radial basis function (RBF) interpolation over local node sets on the surface. This leads to compact 8 (or implicit...

Gillian Marshall and Steve Collins DRA Malvern, UK INTRODUCTION In this paper we describe an analogue VLSI circuit which implements the Radial Basis Function (RBF) algorithm, based around a compact Euclidean Distance calculator. A prototype chip has been fabricated and tested. First, we describe the RBF architecture and present results from the test chip. We then discuss the impact of device va...

ix Resumé xi Remerciements xiii Abbréviations xv I General Introduction 1 0.1 Motivations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 0.2 Goals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 0.3 Contributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 0.4 Outline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

Radial basis function interpolation has attracted a lot of interest in recent years. For popular choices, for example thin plate splines, this problem has a variational formulation, i.e. the interpolant minimizes a semi-norm on a certain space of radial functions. This gives rise to a function space, called the native space. Every function in this space has the property that the semi-norm of an...